Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.